FOREIGN WORDS TRANSLATED 41

took It, now; for it will always have an alien look about it; and,
recent in English as it ist it has already lost its meaning; it
belongs,, in fact, to one of those word-scries of which each
member gets successively worn out. Epochmaking is now no
more than remarkable, as witness this extract from a speech by a
Lord Chancellor;

The banquet to M* Berryt*r and the banquet tn Mr. lirrijamin, both
of them very important, ami to my mimi t*fH*fhmt*kin$ ocoisioiw. «-

LORD HALSBt'KY*

The verb to orient is a (raHicism of much the name sort, and

fh& half ~tvw Id Is perhaps worse:

In his quality of eligible bachelor he had no ohjr*"ti«w* at any tinu* to
conversing with it gomitookmK girl. Only he wished very wiu h th*t? hr
could arfrrrf thin particular <me.«"'<*H(M*KiTi\

High society in represented by * * . JLtcIy itciiuttiimf<*r» Mi*

by Mrs* IVlontr0»e, Io\*4*Iiiirsn and luckless imtot'cnt'r by her

The next extract i» perhaps from the prn tif a French*
speaker trying to write Kn^Hsh: hut it is nut worm* than what
the English writer who cornea Inflow him tlocrn ilt*!i!H*ratt*ly :

Our enveloping movrni^ntt which huw l^^rn pr«*cri*tliftn

Making every ullnwuiirr ftir ttpcctu! i"imifiwt«$rr»» ilie nmmirr in
which th<*nc mtiairur «ikiirrM rtf Ncvrn wcfkn" ?*rfvlrr 5tri|iiifiril
selves compefe «ne ^urioitNly ft* think V- HVifwtViflrr <**wnt>

A warning may he given that if & d;ttig*TmjH i
if you do not know fur certain what thr original niranH, To
ask what the devil some one wan ileiin^ In that gtillwy u irniptiiif*,
and fata!*

Appended arc the illustrating t!ir two diilcrcnt

motives for translation :

If we could fake thi» is»yranrc at ii» foi'r vttUir Iw l
^ we should have 10 t*t»iiclude. * * » - -• */Viwi,

It will be observed (a) that the ;
{$) that to tfafoot Q/th* Ittttr h tn any
one not previously accjunintcd with In Iriirr ; (r) that